Ione Quinby(above, front, third or fourth from left, as
records vary), dated as 1897, in elementary school in Western Springs-- more evidence, with census records, of her actual age; and (left) circa 1910s-1920s.*Photos courtesy of the Western Springs Historical Society)

Ione Quinby, in the 1920s, as she may have looked when enrolled in night school in the Loop, offered by the new Medill School of Journalism of North-western University-- and when hired as the "little girl reporter" at the Evening Post, if almost thirty years old.

Ione Quinby (left) costumed as the "Queen of Sheba" and atop a circus elephant for a "stunt story" early in her years at the Chicago Evening Post, and (right, top) Ione Quinby Griggs at the Milwaukee Journal in the late 1940s, on the air on "Ask Mrs. Griggs," the short- lived WTMJ Radio show, and in the 1950s. (Photos courtesy of the Western Springs Historical Society)

"I.Q.G." at her desk (right) during World War II, when-- less than a decade after the debut of the advice column --she received as many as seven thousand letters a week. (Photo courtesy of the Western Springs Historical Society).

Ione Quinby Griggs at her typewriter (above, left) and at her computer terminal (left). While her hats changed little, she witnessed many changes in newsrooms throughout a career of more than six decades in journalism. She began her career in an era when some reporters still turned in handwritten copy, However, as computers came to the newsroom in the 1970s, the columnist--by then, nearly ninety years old--adapted again to a new technology. She "might have let out an 'oh dear' once in a while," recalled co-worker Bobby Wahlers in this column by Journal colleague Jim Stingl. (Photos courtesy of the Western Springs Historical Society)

Ione Quinby Griggs (second from left) in the Milwaukee Press Club, the country’s oldest press club--and in 1971, the last to admit women as members. On the first day when women were welcome, club member- ship chair Bennett F. Waxse (standing) of the Journal escorted her and other Journal colleagues (at Griggs' left, left to right) Patricia Roberts, Mildred Freese, Barbara Abel, and Barbara Strain, and (at Griggs’ right) co-author Genevieve G. McBride, then at the Milwaukee Courier and Mil- waukee Star. (Photo courtesy of Milwau- kee Press Club Collection, Archives, Uni- versity of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries)

For more photos chronicling the colorful career of "Mrs. Griggs," from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel files, click here.

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